[meteorite-list] Re: Re: (meteorobs) what does a meteorite look like?

From: Rob McNaught <rmn_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:09 2004
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.93.1010211213502.24195A-100000_at_aaocbnu1.aao.gov.au>

I suggest you take this topic up with Alex Bevan of the West
Australian Museum. I refer you to his article "Meteorites
and mammon" in Meteoritics and to comments by Robert Haag
regarding Australian meteorites in S&T several years ago.
If you come from Australia, this topic is well known and I'm
surprised it isn't overseas. I'm afraid I don't have time
to follow this topic further.

Robert H. McNaught
rmn_at_aaocbn.aao.gov.au

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Robert Verish wrote:

> The following thread was initiated on the Meteor
> Observer List. Since this subject is "off-topic" for
> that discussion group, I have moved this thread over
> to our Meteoritecentral List.
>
> Rob McNaught and Ed Majden are not subscribed to our
> List. If you want to reply to them, you will have to
> insert their email addresses -
> <rmn_at_aaocbn.aao.gov.au> <epmajden@home.com>
> to your message.
>
> Rob McNaught and Ed Majden are both highly respected
> meteoriticists. My personal high regard for these
> gentlemen comes from my reading their numerous and
> informative posts to the Meteor Observer List and the
> Cambridge Conference Correspondence.
>
> Ed Majden is the AMS Meteor Spectroscopy Project
> Coordinator of the Sandia Labs All-Sky Camera Network,
> a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
> and the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee
> (MIAC) of the Canadian Space Agency
>
> Rob McNaught is an astronomer at the Australian
> National University working at Siding Spring
> Observatory on asteroid searches. In his own time, he
> operates a photographic network to record bright
> fireballs over NSW, Australia. Rob has been a
> panelist on a popular Internet forum on Australian
> Broadcasting Corporation called "Rocks in Space", and
> is very prominent in the media.
>
> In order to initiate the thread (that I have attached
> below) on this List, I would like to start where that
> thread left off and reply to Rob McNaught by asking
> him this question:
>
> Rob,
> Can you be more specific? I need more details in
> order to continue this discussion. So, I will ask you
> the same question that I asked Ed. Can you NAME any
> of the "many meteorites taken out of Australia
> illegally that are not available to Australian
> researchers". Most of the collectors that I know
> would really like to have this information, so that
> they can avoid having specimens of these meteorites in
> their collections.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Verish
>
> ------------ Start of Attached Thread --------------
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> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:26:54 -0800, "Ed Majden" wrote:
> >
> > "We don't want the meteorite getting lost to science
> > because the price has been driven up in some
> > collectors market and often lost to the people who
> > should be studying it for clues about the origins of
> > the solar system."
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:08:54 -0800 (PST), Robert Verish
> <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ed,
> > Can you name ANY meteorite that has ever been "lost
> > to the people who should be studying it" due to it's
> > high "price"
> > or because a "collector" had kept it away from
> > researchers?
> >
> > Bob V.
>
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:27:54 +1100 (EST), Rob McNaught
> <rmn_at_aaocbn.aao.gov.au> wrote:
>
> "There are many meteorites taken out of Australia
> illegally that are not available to Australian
> researchers. The usual "excuse" given is that
> they were there for Australian researchers to find and
> the meteorites are now available for researchers to
> purchase. This is a criminal act and any defense of
> it, by researchers or authorities in other countries
> should not be condoned."
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Received on Sun 11 Feb 2001 05:38:49 AM PST